Lynette Yiadom-Boakye : fly in league with the night /
Fact and fiction fuse in Lynette Yiadom-Boakye's paintings: they appear to be portraits, yet the people she depicts are not real but invented. Created from a composite of found images and her own imagination, her characters seem to exist outside of a specific time and place: they feel at once f...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers Inc.,
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| Summary: | Fact and fiction fuse in Lynette Yiadom-Boakye's paintings: they appear to be portraits, yet the people she depicts are not real but invented. Created from a composite of found images and her own imagination, her characters seem to exist outside of a specific time and place: they feel at once familiar and mysterious. This ambiguity resonates again in the titles she gives to her artworks. The artist is also a writer of poetry and prose, and for her, the two forms of creativity complement each other: 'The things I can't paint, I write. The things I can't write, I paint.' Accompanying the first exhibition to survey her career in depth, this publication provides a comprehensive account of Yiadom-Boakye's practice over the past two decades. With essays by the poet Elizabeth Alexander and curators Andrea Schlieker and Isabella Maidment, alongside new writing by Yiadom-Boakye, this monograph reflects the dual aspects of the artist's practice as both a painter and a writer and provides an insight into her creative process. Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, born in 1977, is a British artist and writer. She attended Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, Falmouth College of Arts and the Royal Academy. In 2018, she was awarded the Carnegie Prize. |
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| Item Description: | "First published 2020 by order of the Tate Trustees by Tate Publishing, a division of Tate Enterprises Ltd, Millbank, London ... on the occasion of the exhibition Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Fly In League With The Night, Tate Britain, London, 18 November 2020-9 May 2021; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 12 June-5 September 2021; Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (K20), Düsseldorf, 16 October 2021-13 February 2022; Mudam Luxembourg--Musée d'Art, Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, 26 March-4 September 2022"--Colophon. |
| Physical Description: | 187 pages : chiefly color illustrations, portraits ; 28 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-177) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781942884651 1942884656 |